23rd International Conference on Mathematical Geophysics, Summer 2000

本提案请求资金帮助支持参加第23届国际数学地球物理学会议的美国与会者的旅费。今年的会议的主题是“极端地球事件”。会议的重点是显示从静止状态到危机，极端事件，灾难性或灾难性不稳定的突然转变的系统。这些例子包括地震、火山爆发、飓风和龙卷风、山体滑坡、雪崩、大规模物种灭绝和环境退化灾难性事件等重大自然灾害，以及工程结构失灵、股票市场崩盘、国家和全球范围内的社会动荡和经济中断、区域停电、交通堵塞、疾病和流行病。这次会议的目的是提供一个论坛，让来自各个科学学科的科学家相互交流，并与数学和物理界的专家交流。

EAR-0002533Marc SpiegelmanThis proposal requests funds to help support travel costs of U.S. participants to the 23rd International Conference on Mathematical Geophysics. This year's conference is titled Extreme Earth Events. The conference focuses on systems that display sudden transitions from quiescent states to crises, extreme events, catastrophic or disastrous instabilities. Examples range from large natural catastrophes such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes and tornadoes, landslides, avalanches, mass extinctions and catastrophic events of environmental degradation, to the failure of engineering structures, crashes in the stock market, social unrest and economic disruptions on national and global scales, regional power blackouts, traffic gridlock, diseases and epidemics. The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum that allows scientists from a full range of scientific disciplines to interact with each other and with experts in the math and physics community.